Hey, there. This is part four of the Elastic SIEM for home and small business blog series. If you haven’t read the first, second, and third blogs, you may want to before going any further. In the Getting started blog, we created our Elasticsearch Service deployment and started collecting data from one of our computers using Winlogbeat. In the Securing cluster access blog, we secured access to our cluster by restricting privileges for users and Beats.

Over the past several years, status pages have become more and more commonplace. They are not just a feature of the behemoth cloud providers like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, but common among the multitudinous rank-and-file SaaS companies that every modern business depends on. Having a well-maintained status page is not just a luxury anymore.

Here are short instructions how to integrate your AppBeat Monitoring with PagerDuty.

As serverless application architectures have gained popularity, AWS Lambda has become the best-known service for running code on demand without having to manage the underlying compute instances. From an ops perspective, running code in Lambda is fundamentally different than running a traditional application. Most significantly from an observability standpoint, you cannot inspect system-level metrics from your application servers.

When most people hear ‘dynamic thresholds’ in the context of monitoring, they think of the ability to trigger alerts based on a non-static threshold. While this can be incredibly useful, it’s really only half the picture.

We are now happy to release two new LTS versions of CFEngine, 3.10.7 LTS, and 3.12.3 LTS. This will be the last release of the CFEngine 3.10 LTS series. Standard Support of CFEngine 3.10 LTS ends end of this year. If you would like extended support, please contact us. From the CFEngine release schedule, we see that CFEngine 3.10 LTS is maintained and supported until December 28th, 2019.

Kubernetes 1.17 is about to be released! This short-cycle release is focused on small improvements and house cleaning. There are implementation optimizations all over the place, new features like the promising topology aware routing, and improvements to the dual-stack support. Here is the list of what’s new in Kubernetes 1.17.

Queues are a very common piece of infrastructure. It offers First In, First Out (FIFO) message delivery to one or more competing consumers. As the queue grows the last item added to the queue typically must wait longer to be processed. Just like someone waiting in line to order food, the first one in line gets to order first. Microsoft Azure Service Bus (ASB) is Microsoft’s premier enterprise-level messaging technology that uses this principle of FIFO.

Light Reading’s Phil Harvey recently sat down with Resolve’s Larry Lien at Network Virtualization and SDN Americas to explore how communication service providers (CSPs) are benefitting from automation, what types of processes can be automated, how to successfully navigate the automation journey, and how Automation Centers of Excellence can accelerate digital transformation.

IT Asset Management (ITAM) is a deep and broad topic and like a lot of terms in our industry, it can mean different things to different people, so it is important to draw a line in the sand and establish a common denominator for the discussions by understanding what aspects are important to your organization, and more importantly why?